It has been more than a year since James F. Tomsheck, the senior executive at Customs and Border Protection Internal Affairs (CBPIA), was unceremoniously reassigned to a new position at CBP. In response to his demotion from assistant commissioner at CBPIA, Tomsheck lambasted CBP leadership with charges of rampant mismanagement and accused CBP employees of widespread violence and corruption. Have these systemic problems within the largest federal law enforcement agency in the land been resolved, or have the FBI, CBP, and DHS senior leadership chosen to ignore these problems? Is there reasonable public accountability for the alleged criminal behavior at CBP and CBPIA, or are the alleged victims — all the honest, hardworking CBP employees, and the general public — still in the dark about both the hard facts and the consequences of this unprecedented scandal? In short, has there been a clean-up or a cover up?

It has been more than a year since James F. Tomsheck, the senior executive at Customs and Border Protection Internal Affairs (CBPIA), was unceremoniously reassigned to a new position at CBP. In response to his demotion from assistant commissioner at CBPIA, Tomsheck lambasted CBP leadership with charges of rampant mismanagement and accused CBP employees of widespread violence and corruption (Brian Bennett, “Border agency removes its own chief of internal affairs,” Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2014). ).

Tomsheck’s revealing allegations against the CBP, including lightning counter-charges by senior CBP leadership against Tomsheck, define the most significant scandal within this federal law enforcement agency since Congress’s officially mandated Border Patrol Agents and Customs Officers in 1924.

The FBI, CBP, CBPIA, and DHS apparently now seem fully satisfied that justice, integrity, and functionality have been restored at CBP and CBPIA along with all national security issues along the Mexican border, which may have been jeopardized. However, to date the FBI has announced no criminal charges filed either against Tomsheck, the CBP executives Tomsheck identified, or any of the other thousands of employees Tomsheck and others suggested might be guilty of corruption, violence, and supervisory mismanagement within the ranks of CBP and CBPIA.

By the time the FBI’s Mark A. Morgan walked out the office door at CBPIA after temporarily assuming Tomsheck’s position as senior executive, had these unprecedented systemic problems truly been resolved within the largest federal law enforcement agency in the land? Or did the FBI, CBP, and DHS senior leadership simply choose to ignore serious systemic problems at CBP and CBPIA, including alleged key players like Tomsheck and those he vilified? In short, is there reasonable public accountability for the alleged criminal behavior at CBP and CBPIA, or are the alleged victims, all of the honest, hardworking CBP employees, and the general public still in the dark about both the hard facts and consequences of this unprecedented scandal?